should the Chinese have? Honestly speaking, learning English itself shouldn't be criticised, and we need to learn English to communicate with the world to show our culture and society.

　　However, it doesn't make any sense that the importance of Chinese is replaced by a foreign language in a native's mind.It's really time to protect our Chinese language! Are you ready?

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。文章讨论了是否需要保护汉语。作者认为需要保护汉语并向读者发出倡议。

　　5．Some Chinese linguists get confused about the use of Chinese because ________.

　　A．more and more new words are used

　　B．great changes have taken place in Chinese

　　C．they can not understand network vocabulary

　　D．there are too many mistakes and misunderstandings

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句可知，现在人们所说的汉语中存在很多错误和误解，这是使语言学家困惑的原因之一。

　　6．The author describes the situation of English in China to ________.

　　A．explain how popular English is

　　B．prove the importance of English

　　C．remind us to concern the situation of Chinese

　　D．encourage us to use Chinese rather than English

　　解析：选C　推理判断题。本文主要提出了应该保护汉语的观点，提及国内英语学习情况是为了提醒我们在学习外语的同时，也不要减轻对本国语言的重视。

　　7．Which of the following situations about Chinese is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A．Chinese is one of the oldest languages in history.

　　B．Chinese is more popular than English in the world.

　　C．Chinese has the most speakers in the world.

　　D．More and more countries have started learning Chinese.

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。由文章的第五、六段可知，汉语是世界上最古老的语言之一，说汉语的人是世界上最多的，越来越多的国家开始学习汉语。B项内容在文中没有信息依据。

　　C

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